In the play " Inherit the Wind" by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, Henry Drumon, Bert Cates and Matthew Harrison Brady are fighting for their personal beliefs. First, Henry Drumon, a puissant and sagacious lawyer, who catapults the court case into the trail of the century. Bert Cates, your typical school teacher, whose " Darwism" deviation the minds of the towns people. Finally, The Prosecuting attorney, Matthew Harrison Brady, whose interpretation of the bible lead to why the biblical theory is dextral.
" I was a school teacher. I feel I am ... I have been convicted of violating an unjust law. I will continue in the future, as I have in the past, to oppose this law in any way I can." This powerful statement comes from Bert Cates, who is on trail for teaching "Darwism", which is the theory of Darwin evolution. Darwin's theory states that us
humans evolved over time from bacteria, to Monkeys and eventually humans. Cates believes that, the constitution gives him every right to teach and express his beliefs.
During this whole trail, the quote above, was the only way Cates could express how he felt about the whole situation
"Bert, whenever you see something bright, shining, perfect-seeming-all gold, with purple spots-look behind the paint! And if it's a lie-show it up for what it really is!" Drumon quote is said to be the climax of the story. Drumon is ascertain to do whatever it takes to convince the jury that you can't judge a book by it cover; you must look beyond that point and seek the truth, and let the truth be known and shown. Drumon does this by comparing the three-evolunary theories, which are the big ban theory, the biblical theory and the agonistic theory. It is said in the biblical theory that god created the world in 6th days and rested on the 7th and created man and woman. The big ban theory declares tha
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